news & features

• More synagogues opening doors for free on High Holy Days

• Phyllis Cook planning to retire from Jewish Community Endowment Fund

• 5767: The heroes, villains and stories of the year that was: A highlight-chronology of the top Jewish-world news items of the past year:

• Reform movement leader reaches out to U.S. Muslims

• Charles Vanik dies; helped Soviet Jews

• Remembering Grace Paley, a woman writer full of grace

• Richard Kavich-Sharon, sexual psychologist, dies at 73

• Shorts: U. S.

• Potential Rookie of the Year won’t say if he’ll play or pray

• Tennis stars to fund young U.S. athletes

• Seminary leader’s plans call for talking and more talking

• Israel, Vatican sign a deal to boost Holy Land tourism

• Shorts: World

• A first in Moscow:: Soccer fans charged with hate crime

• Shorts: Mideast

• Livni ranked most powerful Israeli woman

• Israeli woman basketball star returning home to play pro

• Thinking ahead: a reflective exercise

• Classes for the holidays

• Shorts: Bay Area

• Wrestling with future is full-time job for new E. Bay federation president

• Yom Kippur atoning on ‘Young and the Restless’

• Ready, set, Yom Tov: Preparation is key to meaningful High Holy Days

• Locals digging in for last-ditch effort to ‘save’ Camp Swig

• Hebrew lyricism is the star of new Psalms translation

• b’nai mitzvah

• benefits &  social events

• German microbrewery finds niche via kosher beer

• Food and funfor a sweet new year

• No buttah? Delectable desserts without the cholesterol bomb

• A time of transition for U.S. Jewry

• Israel’s year fraught with promise and peril

• Opportunities, threats dot landscape for European Jewry

arts

• Shorts: Arts

• Argentinean Holocaust survivor breaks his silence with harrowing book

• Definitive book on Gershwin should come with comfy chair

• When kids ask about Judaism, just be ‘Honest’

• Eytan Fox pops Tel Aviv’s ‘Bubble’

• For Czech singer, blindness is no obstacle to lighting up a room

• Musical is a ‘Dream’come true for local Holocaust refugee

columns

• Faces

• Diary of a wandering Jew, now settling in

• This New Year, let’s make a commitment to choosing life

cook

• Brisket 101: Cook slowly and don’t trim away all the fat

opinions & letters

• Happy New Year to all!

• This New Year, take stock of our treatment of the earth

• At this holy time of year, being single can be unbearable

• It’s time to heal Israel — starting from within

• Letters

lifecycles

• unveiling

• deaths

• engagements

• b’nai mitzvah